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It seems that changing those settings in config.php has no point, what’s defined in the database stays leading.

Is this a bug or feature?

I don’t see the point to add it to the config.php when it’s not used (AFAIK).

J3roen,

site_name is certainly used and can already be overridden - it’s used to specify the current msm site

site_label however cannot be overridden. This is not a bug

See Pascal’s reply in this following Bug Report
https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/12866/#8209

Hi John,

Thanks for the reply!

I’ve read the bug_report, but I’ve tried changing the site_name in index.php as well as config.php. {site_name} keeps returning the value that’s in the database. Can you confirm this behavior?

Try this in your index.php file- the one… above your system folder- or in the case of an MSM site w/an index.php directing traffic- in that index.php:

$system_path = '../system';
    $assign_to_config['site_name'] = 'dos';

That do the trick?  (only second line- other is there for context.  That’s my second site in a subfolder’s index.php file).

Still not overriding the database value for me. It’s not a huge problem though.

J3roen,

Still not overriding the database value for me.

It won’t override the value for you. It is there to reference the value in your database for using the MSM. So when you create a second site on MSM and put the index.php into the relevant sites folder you need to update this value to reflect what you called the site’s shortname you added when creating a new site in the control panel

It now knows where to look for your site’s preferences

Does that make sense?